A movie was released in 1986 entitled Top Gun. It received mixed reviews and starred a fellow named Tom Cruise who played “Maverick,” who was protected by his wingman “Iceman,” portrayed by Val Kilmer.
We learned this term was messaged to reflect a wingman is someone whose job it is to protect the team leader during missions.
It also refers to a person who helps, guides, or supports another, especially one who assists a friend in trying to seduce another person (think: Nightclub scenario.) In this instance, we’re implying the flying definition.
In any case, this wingman term popped up following the election of America’s second black president after Bill Clinton, Barack Hussein Obama. Carefully hand-selecting his staff and Cabinet, Obama made it crystal clear he felt only people of color were capable of driving this bus toward an historic trip.
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| Obama and his Wingman |
One of those anointed to serve Obama was a lawyer named Eric Himpton Holder, Jr., the first black man to hold the position of United States Attorney General (AG). He would likely be comfortable in this position inasmuch as he served as Deputy AG (DAG) under Janet Reno, who happened to be Bill Clinton’s AG. Pretty convenient, I’d say. Maybe even a stroke of luck.
Being a true team player, Holder fortuitously found himself in a position to oversee surreptitiously sending arms to Mexico under the guise of detecting trails of gun trafficking across the Southern Border. Called Fast and Furious, this half-baked operation was an absolute disaster since it lost track of most of the weapons it funneled to criminal gangs. Wink, wink.
Since the Department of Justice (DOJ) happens to be conveniently placed under the purview of the Executive Branch, legal matters were, and still are, handled with the greatest of ease between the friendly DOJ and the Office of the President.
Unfortunately, the AG’s Office is supposed to be independent of the President’s Office, for the sake of impartiality if for nothing else. Blurring that invisible line made it awfully simple for any possible improprieties and questionable dealings.
Mark Twain said, “A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.”
I bring this up because the former President Obama just recently appeared on a taped television show, The Late Night with Stephen Colbert. Colbert is a liberal whiner who feels as though his snarky comments about President Trump – along with the three recent assassination attempts on The President’s life – are fair game, and not at all contributing to a toxic anti-Trump environment.
This Obama – Colbert tongue bath opened the door to school America about presidents misusing the DOJ.
Implying President Trump is wreaking havoc on America and its citizens, Constitutional lawyer Obama openly claimed the AG’s Office should be operating neutrally, he said aloud to a sycophantic Colbert.
In the event you’re stupid drunk or stoned, this is the same dynamic duo of Obama and Holder, that worked together, seamlessly. In fact, Holder openly proclaimed he was Obama’s “wingman.”
Please go back and re-read that last paragraph; I’ll wait for you.
Continuing, Obama had the audacity to warn that American democracy “can’t overcome” the “politicization of the criminal justice system” and cautioned that the AG must never become the president’s “consigliere.”
These interesting facts speak volumes when you are able to weave them together like a spider’s web. It is unfortunate, though, that the media is cursed with the ‘forgetful gene,’ leaving them with important gaps where there should be none.
By the way, AG Eric Holder was audacious regarding his control of the AG’s Office. Also attributed to him is the following quote: “I am the attorney general [sic] of the United States. But I am also a black man.” Not the colorblind, unbiased attitude for which Lady Justice supposedly stands.
